Epistemic logic : a survey of the logic of knowledge /
"Epistemic Logic examines the nature of knowledge, the conceptual ramifications of defining knowledge, and the reach and limits of what we know. As the branch of philosophy that formalizes the discourse on knowledge, epistemic logic seeks to articulate and clarify the general principles of reas...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2005]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Setting the stage
- 2. Basic principles
- 3. Deductivity and knowledge ampliation
- 4. Metaknowledge
- 5. For aught that someone knows
- 6. Group knowledge
- 7. Propositional versus interrogative knowledge
- 8. Collective versus distributive knowledge and knower limitedness
- 9. Modality
- 10. Problems of epistemic democracy
- 11. Possibility and conceivability
- 12. Unknowability
- 13. Fitch's theorem and its consequences
- 14. Finite and infinite knowers
- 15. Vagrant predicates and noninstantiability
- 16. Unanswerable questions and insolubilia
- 17. Unknowable truth
- 18. Implications of cognitive limitation
- App. 1. A survey of thesis acceptability.